State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Grillot v. State (2003), Commonwealth v. Woodward (1998)
39 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Vickers v. State · Rainey v. State · Doby v. State · Franklin v. State · State v. Long
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) The court shall not be obligated to charge the jury with respect to an included offense unless there is a rational basis for a verdict acquitting the defendant of the offense charged and convicting him of the lesser included offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCormack
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.